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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

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I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

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The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.

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I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.

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We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?

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No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

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Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

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What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

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I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

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The severest justice may not always be the best policy

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I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.

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I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

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I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

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Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.

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Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?” Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested, “But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.” “Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.

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If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

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